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Medicaid expenses are climbing at double-digit rates even as state tax revenues decline in an underperforming economy. It adds up to the fact that state officials are facing some very difficult decisions in the new year. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed one of the strictest abortion bans in the country and a federal judge quickly blocked the measure that includes a ban…

Kentucky officials say grants totaling $4.6 million have been awarded to Kentucky counties for recycling, household hazardous waste and composting.The…

A producer of wood roof and floor trusses is expanding its operation in Mayfield with a more than $1.6 million dollar investment. Power Truss plans to…

Western Union has agreed to pay an estimated $6.8 million dollars to Kentuckians who have been victims of fraud induced wire transfers. Kentucky Attorney…

Shawn Fain has been UAW president for less than six months, elected in the first direct ballot where members picked their leadership. Now he's in the spotlight as the union starts to strike.

Paducah officials approved an order this week to apply for a Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives grant to digitize a binder of fire insurance…

Companies tied to Chicago-based Cresco Labs submitted 128 expensive applications for Kentucky medical cannabis licenses. They landed two, delivering the most coveted cultivator operation back to Cresco.

The Tennessee State Library is adding more than 1 million newspaper pages to its free online collection. The newly added historical newspapers from…

By most countries' standards, China's economy is flourishing. It grew almost 7 percent in the last quarter and 9 percent for 2008. Still, that was a slowdown, snapping a five-year streak of double-digit growth. China is the world's third-largest economy after the United States and Japan.